نتایج جستجو برای: health status disparities
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Health Inequality Can be defined as Differences Variations and Disparities in Achieving Health across a Group of People. These Disparities have become a Major and Main Public Health Concern and Most Countries Seek to reduce this Desperation by Putting in Place Policies. Policies and Interventions Which Directly Address the Social and Economic Factor that Drive Health Inequalities are Likely to ...
BACKGROUND Health disparities, defined as a significant difference in health between populations, are more common for diseases of the respiratory system than for those of other organ systems, because of the environmental influence on breathing and the variation of the environment among different segments of the population. The lowest social groups are up to 14 times more likely to have respirat...
Pervasive health disparities continue to exist among racial/ethnic minority groups, but the factors related to these disparities have not been fully elucidated. We undertook this prospective cohort study to determine the independent contributions of socioeconomic status (SES), health behaviors, and health insurance in explaining racial/ethnic disparities in mortality and health declines. Our st...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Fifty-five million Americans speak a non-English primary language at home, but little is known about health disparities for children in non-English-primary-language households. Our study objective was to examine whether disparities in medical and dental health, access to care, and use of services exist for children in non-English-primary-language households. METHODS T...
Access to medical care is a central concern to U.S. policymakers and those interested in health care reform. Wide disparities in access by poverty status and health insurance status are of special importance. This Statistical Brief describes trends in access to health care through the period between 1996-2006 using data from the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-...
Health disparities are a national health priority and occur “...when a particular population has significantly higher rates of disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity, or mortality than the general population” (U.S. Public Law 106–525).1 Health disparate populations are often defined by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status (SES), generational status (e.g., older adults), and geographical loca...
Despite efforts to eliminate health disparities, racial, ethnic, and geographic groups continue lag behind their counterparts in health outcomes in the United States. The purpose of this study is to determine variation in specialty care utilization by chronic disease status. Data were extracted from the Commonwealth Fund 2006 Health Care Quality Survey (n = 2475). A stratified minority sample d...
BACKGROUND Elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in health has become a major national goal. The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has the potential to reduce disparities among the children who enroll if they exhibit the same disparities that have been documented in previous studies of low-income children. To determine the potential impact of SCHIP on racial and ethnic di...
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